FOREST STEWARDS

Forest Stewards is a non-profit corporation affiliated with Western Carolina University created to promote and implement forest stewardship in the Appalachians. We provide a wide range of stewardship services to forest landowners who desire to maintain and enhance the health and ecological integrity of their forests... Forest Stewards provides cutting-edge forestry expertise to landowners. Through careful planning and project implementation, we help landowners maintain and enhance ecological integrity of their forests... The future of our forests is not guaranteed. Unregulated development, forest fragmentation, air-pollution, acid rain, global warming, and the introduction of invasive-exotic pests will continue to pose serious threats. Forest Stewards promotes a proactive approach to dealing with these threats. In many cases we need to treat our forests to speed the restoration from past abuses, and to make our woods more resistant and resilient to the new and ever-changing threats..